The Mystic Art of Pulse Feeling in China the China Journal of Science and Arts

By Arlington, L. C.

Book Id: WPLBN0000704606
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 3.21 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Mystic Art of Pulse Feeling in China the China Journal of Science and Arts
Author:	Arlington, L. C.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	Asian Literature Collection, e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; E-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: The exact date when the feeling of the pulse to test the circulation of the blood through the arteries originated in China is unknown. It is, however, recorded in the Lieh Kuo Chih ... that a man name Ch'in Yuen-jen ... who lived in the 5th cent. B.C., received from and old man name Ch'ang Shang-chun ... a certain drug which he was instructed to take for thirty consecutive days, and on the expiry of which he was able the understand the Nature of Things.